$$$ Google’s results fall short, rare miss pummels shares [Reuters]
$$$ Hedge-Fund Investors Pull Cash [WSJ]
$$$ Credit Suisse wins $7bn AIG securities auction [FT]
$$$ Actually several desks at Goldman bathe ritually in blood before their morning call. Matt Taibbi knows this. [Daily Intel, cf. John Carney/NetNet]
$$$ Only half of college lacrosse players smoke pot [Bloomberg via Deadspin]
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$$$ Is the Porn Industry Imperiled? [CNBC]
$$$ SocGen, BNP Job Cuts Reflect Wilting Ambitions of Paris Banks [Bloomberg]
$$$ More things Mitt Romney invented [WSJ, earlier, also earlier]
$$$ Like private equity partners, junior law firm associates sometimes retrade [NetNet]
$$$ Everyone has a favorite strange Bloomberg headline. “George Washington Wine Cooler Sells for $782,500 at Christie’s” is mine. [Bloomberg]

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Save the Porn!
Has anyone else ever gone to the Archives tab and just looked at the list of "subjects?" in and of itself, it's a microcosm of why I love this blog.
-Wake and bake, dude. Wake and bake. Are you holdin'?
-No.
-Did William Holden come to the party?
-No.
-You got Holden Caulfield in there, man?
-No, we don't do that here.
Bess is really, really fucking talented.
No opening bell yet? Sounds like someone was out for a night of margs and blow with some lax bros.
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